Dax
\daks\
The verdict
“Dax” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,244) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,244
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dax · Dax · French
Dax · rank #14,244 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,244
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Delphine
Nearest frequency peer: Delphine (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Dax »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Daech
Daech
85,760 corpus weight
- dany
dany
85,759 corpus weight
- Dax
Dax
85,757 corpus weight
- Delphine
Delphine
85,756 corpus weight
- diffusées
diffusées
85,755 corpus weight
- donneur
donneur
85,754 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Dax » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \daks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Dax »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Dax is neighbouring look-alikes ("de", "du", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \daks\. Frequency #14,244 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dax, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "du", "dr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Dax, spelled D-A-X.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était votre première expérience en tant qu’entraîneur rochelais pour vous le Montois, et vous l’avez vécu dans les Landes, mais à Dax…
Hier, sur le ruedo de Dax, Raphaël a fait lever les gens, il a convaincu les gradins et poussé la musique à jouer pour son toreo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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